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08/07/2025

Shh... there are 2 exclusive uploads on the thrilljockey.com homepage today, with special coverage on our Substack. Holy Sons? claire rousay? First access, but you didn't hear it here...

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07/25/2025

Today is release day!
Special shout-out to Lee Buford for having his hands in both releases! Both of these titles are now available on shelves at indie stores worldwide.

Listen now!
thebody.bandcamp.com
manslaughter777.bandcamp.com

OUT TODAY: The Body - All the Waters of Earth Turn to Blood deluxe 2xLP re-issue. This has not been available in for-ev-errrrr, and it was even pulled from streaming services a while ago. It's back now, though, and listening to the first track gave us chills all over again like it was our first time hearing it!

OUT TODAY: Manslaughter 777 - God's World
This is a new album from Manslaughter 777, the duo of Lee (The Body) and Zac Jones (Nothing, MSC). Both producers interested in jungle, breakbeat, and dub, they've made dance tracks that are SUPER crispy and SUPER crunchy. The bespoke LP jacket was designed and hand-printed by the band, and these tunes are NOT ON STREAMING SERVICES in a real bootleg guerrilla style. Get your fingerprints on an LP copy (which does come with a digital download).

07/23/2025

Legendary electronic composer Nobukazu Takemura will be releasing his upcoming album, knot of meanings, on Thrill Jockey September 26th!

Listen to the first single and grab a copy on pretty Crystal Clear 2xLP or CD — be aware, the first limited LP Translucent Yellow color has already sold out!

Nobukazu has been an incredibly interesting and inventive artist for 40 years. He got his start in Japan as a DJ and in a hip-hop group with EYE from Boredoms, and has since worked with Tortoise, Steve Reich, Jim O'Rourke, Yo La Tengo, Takako Minekawa and more.

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07/16/2025

A new album from Sam Prekop has been officially announced!
"Open Close" will be out September 26th, and the first single "Light Shadow" is streaming now. Listen and preorder here:

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Much of the music of Open Close was composed for live performance, and in recording Prekop has captured the flow and energy of a live performance through the lens of a deft craftsman, an equilibrium of intuitive composition and the excitement of possibility.

“I like simple words that become complicated if you think of them more than a second or two, beyond face value. And Open Close could be: close as in ‘close to you’ or close as in ‘close the door.’"

True of the title and the music, Prekop is a stickler for subtlety. "If it gives everything away too quickly, then I’m not interested.”

"Open Close" is available for preorder now via digital download, White vinyl LP, and CD. There is also a new Sam Prekop t-shirt design available during pre-order!

06/25/2025

Hear ye! Manslaughter 777, the duo of Lee Buford (The Body) and Zac Jones (Nothing/MSC) release "Silk Barricade" the second single from their upcoming album God's World, out July 25th.

Take a look at the bespoke hand-printed LP jackets (designed & silkscreened by the band) and listen to the jungle-dub-breakbeat track below.

This record is NOT AVAILABLE on streaming services.
LPs are limited and come with a digital download.
Find it via the linktree in our bio.

06/24/2025

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06/25/2024

"Grimier chords, longer and weirder freeform jams, utterly confounding rhythms, seismic heaviness, and profound humanity at its core... if jaw-dropping musicianship is a given by this point in Sumac’s career, what makes The Healer exceptional is its command of spatial presence and emotional weight"

We knew it was good, you knew it was good at first listen —
SUMAC's new album The Healer just got a glowing review, 8.4 score, and Best New Music rating on pitchfork.com!

Read the full review below, order a copy of The Healer, and catch SUMAC out on the road NOW!

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/sumac-the-healer/

Order The Healer: https://thrilljockey.com/products/the-healer
See tour dates: https://thrilljockey.com/tours

Read Patric Fallon’s review of the album.

08/31/2023

With their new album Distorted Rooms out in just a couple of weeks, and with upcoming tour dates, Radian have joined Instagram! Go give 'em a follow, they've got more exciting news coming imminently > https://www.instagram.com/radianvienna/

Here's where you can catch Radian this fall:

Sept. 23 - Wroclaw, PL - Avant Art Festival
Sept. 28 - Poznan, PL - Avant Art Festival
Oct. 6 - Wels, AT - Schlachthof Wels
Oct. 21 - Fresnes-en-Woëvre, FR - Densités Festival
Nov. 23 - Vienna, AT - das Werk

03/22/2023

New York friends! Extremely excited to share that Matmos have been announced as one of the headliners for Outline Fest, which returns to the Knockdown Centre for this spring for its first edition of 2023. Get tickets here, you won't wanna miss this > https://link.dice.fm/matmos

Spanning two nights, Outline Fest straddles the seasons: on Saturday April 29, heavy experimental electronics and cutting edge dance take over indoors, while Friday May 13 opens the Ruins summer season with lush contemporary jazz-informed composition. Matmos will be headlining the April 29th show, with the full line-up getting announce Monday, March 27th at noon.

Outline returns to Knockdown Center with its most ambitious edition yet. Headliners announced on Tuesday March 21st. This is an 21+ event

10/31/2022

"One guitar, but so much creativity and sound!"

Marisa Anderson was featured on KUAF 91.3 Public Radio, the University of Arkansas' radio station and an NPR affiliate, ahead of her show at Clapp Auditorium in Fayetteville, AR on Wednesday. She participated in a brief but substantive interview with Kyle Kellams for the show Ozarks at Large. Check it out here:

Marisa Anderson will be at Clapp Auditorium Wednesday night with her guitar. One guitar, but so much creativity and sound!

10/28/2022

"The sound design is just magnificent here, elevating the hardcore and metal structures... It’s an excellent combination of genres and scenes that Persher achieve with Man With The Magic Soap, managing to conform the live instrumentation to the electronic narrative. While there are a number of artists out there that have performed the same alchemical process, Persher stand out with their exuberance and boundlessness."

Huge thanks to PopMatters for including Persher's Man With The Magic Soap in their Metal Matters list of the best albums of the month!

This month's best metal albums feature grind phenoms Cloud Rat, Faceless Burial's death metal recipe, and Desbot opening new pathways for post-metal.

10/26/2022

We're ecstatic to announce the latest project from Japanese experimental music legend YoshimiO - a new collaborative album with producer IzumikiYoshi. To The Forest To Live a Truer Life will be out March 24th - listen to hypnotic first single "mini yO" now, and grab the white LP from our store.

To The Forest... compiles some of YoshimiO's most surprising material to date. There’s still plenty of the same wild vocal acrobatics that longtime OOIOO and YoshimiO fans will instantly recognize, but the album finds YoshimiO playing piano for the first time since her youth. izumikiYoshi picks up those raw piano and vocal inputs and uses modular synthesizer to transmute them into expansive electronic atmospheres.
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